A | B |
nativism | prejudice against foreign born people |
isolationism | policy of pulling away from involvment in world affairs |
communism | economic and political system based on a single-party government and collective ownership of industry and business |
anarchists | people who oppose any form of government |
Sacco and Vanzetti | anarchists whose trial for mureder in 1920 caused protests all over the world |
quota system | established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each country |
John L. Lewis | Union leader who led coalworkers on strike in 1919 |
Mitchell Palmer | US Attorney General who took action against suspected Communists in the Red Scare of 1919 |
J. Edgar Hoover | special assistant to Mitchell Palmer during the Palmer Raids |
Palmer Raids | government raids against suspected Communists, Socialists and anarchists in 1919 |
Warren G Harding | won the election of 1920, considered one of the worst presidents ever |
Charles Evans Huges | set up the Washington Naval Conference |
Kellog-Briand Pact | treaty in which the major powers agreed to naval disarmament and renounced war |
Fordney McCumber Tariff | raised the tariff to the highest level ever |
Ohio gang | President Harding's poker buddies |
Teapot Dome Scandal | graft scandal during the Harding administration |
Albert B. Fall | Interior Secretary who was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal |
Calvin Coolidge | took over the presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding |
Route 66 | main road west from Chicago to Los Angeles |
urban sprawl | the spread of cities in all directions |
installment plan | paying for goods over an extended period of time |